Housing question, Please help!

question. i have ordered a rack system, and a corn snake, but it looks like my corn snake will arrive before my rack system. is it alright to put the corn in a smaller tank inside of my BPs tank, just until the rack gets delivered and i can separate them?

I have ordered a rack system, and a corn snake, but it looks like my corn snake will arrive before my rack system. is it alright to put the corn in a smaller tank inside of my BPs tank, just until the rack gets delivered and i can separate them?

I wouldn't do that. I would get a tub and some luggage straps or bungee cords and keep the corn in that. Have you not already bought the tubs for the rack? Just use one of those.

Its recommended to quarantine new snakes.

It's also worth noting that corns and BPs do have slightly different humidity requirements. Probably not a good idea.

Colubrids don't need a ton of heat. For the short term you can always get a heating pad from Walmart/Walgreens/target and put it on a low setting, and put the corn enclosure on top of the pad. Just make sure to use a temp gun or other thermometer to make sure you aren't getting the tub above 80 ish.

Keep in mind this isn't a thermostatically controlled environment so you will need to try to keep the enclosure in a room that doesn't fluctuate temp wise very much, and also you will need to check tank temps daily.

I would personally not use human heat pads-- they generally get way too hot, too fast, and with the whole enclosure on it, it could bake the corn. In most areas of the country, right now, an unfed cornsnake in someone's home would probably be okay without heat for a couple of days to a week. My house is in the mid-upper 70's right now. That would be okay for a corn, temporarily.

Most people pads also have an auto shut off after a couple hours.
You should be able to keep the corn in a warm room of the house as long as the container is secure.

As pit said, human heat pads these days have an unbelievable amount of control systems to prevent overheating. I just took the temp of the one o have for my back on the low setting, barely got past 80. Now a days they have to take into account the moron factor for most of the country, and install redundant controls to prevent people from being stupid and hurting themselves.

i was just suggesting some kind of supplemental heat, but definitely isn't necessary